I can't wait to check out the Joker and especially Two-Face, whose Top Secret appearance has sort-of-been-leaked (but I've avoided, waiting for the surprise). And if I swung that way, Maggie Gyllenhaal would TOTALLY be my Movie Star Girlfriend, so I can't wait for her too.

Too cute.

In other news, I start novel revisions tomorrow. Huzzah! After my fabulous mini-film fest last week, I've been in agony this week, dying to read my book and see if it's as brilliant/horrible as I remember. It's funny, but the moment I am NOT allowed to work on something is the exact moment I desperately want to.

Which means tomorrow I will be running from it again, high speed, coat-tails flapping out behind me.

I didn't get as much other work written as I wish I had, but I did start my Fairy Tale Project, and I did get rough drafts of my agent query letter and synopsis done. Phew!

I also read a certain someone's SUPER-AMAZING manuscript, and have been fighting fits of creative jealousy ever since! WOW! Mind-boggling and fantastic and clever and funny. People will be blown away when they get their mittens on it.

In the meantime, here's another great book that IS available now: Sarah Addison Allen's latest, The Sugar Queen. I really liked her last novel (her first commercial success), Garden Spells, but I freaking LOVED The Sugar Queen. If you aren't familiar with her work, she writes magic realism set in small, quirky towns in the mountains of North Carolina (she lives here in Asheville -- cool!).

In this story, the heroine wakes up on the first cold day of the year to find a grungy woman with running mascara and bleached hair sitting in her closet.

The woman refuses to leave.

From there, the tale unfurls into a delightful love story with sugar-snow kissed windows and magic flowers sown from tears and books that follow people around and a family who simply CANNOT break a promise.

3 comments:

Ooh! The Sugar Queen sounds delish. I am going to order it. And while I am over on Amazon, I think I cannot resist ordering Hellboy 2: Art of the Movie. AND -- get this!!! -- Spaced is finally available on DVD in the States! Do you know it? Simon Pegg as a comic book nerd/slacker? The best!

I hope Batman is wonderful. We are going to see it next week. Can't WAIT!!!

Hi, there! I'm Steph, and I wrote ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, and ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. I also edited the romantic holiday anthology MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME and the upcoming SUMMER DAYS & SUMMER NIGHTS.